Amazon.com has thrown down the gauntlet in front of low end store hosting sites. Analysts can’t seem to agree on whether this is a good thing or bad thing for Amazon. I still go to Amazon.com to shop for books, but I haven’t investigated any of their other offerings. The fact that the bookstore is no longer the front page is nothing more than an irritant to me, I don’t care what else is on it.
Yeah, I know it seems like I link to an article from Salon almost every day, but the fact is that they publish a lot of thought provoking articles. Today, they’re running an article about Apple’s ignoring their own human interface guidelines in favor of marketing for QuickTime, and the implications of that for the Apple platform. The idea of Apple eschewing their interface guidelines, the hallmark of the platform, makes me slackjawed.